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Solanum humile Lam.

Low nightshade (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Solanales > Solanaceae > Solanum

Characteristics

Shrub or shrublet, up to 1 m tall, stellately hairy, prickles yellow to reddish brown, straight, up to 12 mm long. Leaves petiolate, ovate to elliptic, up to 40 mm long, margins slightly uneven. Flowers 2-4 in clusters, up to 12 mm long, blue, lilac or violet. Berries mottled green, turning orange, red or black, up to 12 mm diam.
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Shrub to 1.5 m; spines to 12 mm long, slender, straight, yellow to reddish brown. Leaves ovate, obtusely lobed, spiny on veins, to 4 cm long. Flowers 1-4 in clusters, mauve to purple, to 10 mm diam. Berries orange to red, 10 mm diam.
Spiny shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Spines straight. Leaves sinuately 5-7-lobed, stellate-hairy. Cymes racemose, few-flowered. Corolla 20 mm in diameter. Fruit black or reddish. Flowers violet or deep purple.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-12
Soil texture 5-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 15 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Solanum humile world distribution map, present in Angola, Namibia, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID -
WFO ID wfo-0001028489
COL ID 4Y2RZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Solanum damarense Solanum denudatum Solanum galpinii Solanum giftbergense Solanum humile Solanum rigescentoides Solanum subrectemunitum Solanum multiglandulosum var. multiarmatum Solanum rigescens var. parvibaccatum
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